{"id":255,"date":"2011-03-19T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesixsides.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2011-03-19T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:08:13","slug":"an-argument-for-consistent-puzzle-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/19\/an-argument-for-consistent-puzzle-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Consistent Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to be good at all your puzzles right? You aim to be in the top 1000 for all the WCA puzzles you compete in. Well that&#8217;s a little hard, because it means you have to consistently practice all your events. Now for me, I hadn&#8217;t practiced the Megaminx in a while, when a friend asked how fast I was, I had to check for myself. Being an avid <a href=\"http:\/\/cubemania.org\" target=\"_blank\">Cubemania<\/a> user I decided to log an average&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256\" style=\"width: 687px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/megagraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-256\" title=\"Cubemania Graph\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/megagraph.jpg\" alt=\"Cubemania Graph\" width=\"687\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The most recent time was the one I did today. The box is for the one before it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WHOA!! The box is for the average right before that really slow one, the one I did today. I haven&#8217;t done Megaminx in 5 months, I did not expect that kind of slow down in time.<\/p>\n<p>I chatted with Norwegian master <a title=\"WCA Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcubeassociation.org\/results\/p.php?i=2010ARBO01\" target=\"_blank\">Morten Arborg<\/a> once and he told me he does ~300 cubes a day!\u00a0If this shows you anything it&#8217;s that it takes time and energy to maintain speed and good performance. \u00a0There are events in this sport that just come down to practice, practice, and more practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to be good at all your puzzles right? You aim to be in the top 1000 for all the WCA puzzles you compete in. Well that&#8217;s a little hard, because it means you have to consistently practice all your events. Now for me, I hadn&#8217;t practiced the Megaminx in a while, when a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speedcubing","tag-average"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}